The Deceit of the Gibeonites
Joshua 9:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
- KJV
- And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
- WEB
- The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”
- ASV
- And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
- LSV
- and the men of Israel say to the Hivite, “It may be [that] you are dwelling in our midst, so how do we make a covenant with you?”
- YLT
- and the men of Israel say unto the Hivite, 'It may be in our midst ye are dwelling, and how do we make with thee a covenant?'
- DBY
- And the men of Israel said to the Hivite, Perhaps thou dwellest in the midst of us, and how should I make a covenant with thee?
- DRC
- Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.
- GNV
- Then the men of Israel said vnto the Hiuites, It may be that thou dwellest among vs, how then can I make a league with thee?
- JPS
- And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites: 'Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?'
- LXXE
- And the children of Israel said to the Chorrhæan, Peradventure thou dwellest amongst us; and how should I make a covenant with thee?
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- Written (Ketiv): וַיֹּאמְרוּ (“and they said”). Read aloud (Qere): וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (“and he said”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (3)
- Leningrad Codex reads וַיֹּ֥אמֶרו; read aloud (Qere) reads וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (“and he said”).
- Leningrad Codex reads אֶֽכְרָות־; read aloud (Qere) reads אֶֽכְרָת (“will I make”).
- Written (Ketiv): אֶכְרוֹת. Read aloud (Qere): אֶֽכְרָת (“will I make”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- ויאמרו אִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־הַחִוִּ֑י אוּלַ֗י בְּקִרְבִּי֙ אַתָּ֣ה יוֹשֵׁ֔ב וְאֵ֖יךְ אכרות־לְךָ֥ בְרִֽית׃Read aloud as (qere): וַיֹּ֥אמֶרRead aloud as (qere): אֶֽכְרָת
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ εἶπαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ πρὸς τὸν Χοῤῥαῖον, ὅρα μὴ ἐν ἐμοὶ κατοικεῖς· καὶ πῶς σοι διαθῶμαι διαθήκην;
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◆ War with Canaanites
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Cross-references most cited first
- Joshua 11:19No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
- Judges 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
- Deuteronomy 20:16However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
- Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
- Joshua 9:1Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites,…
- Deuteronomy 7:2–3and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give…
- Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Exodus 23:31–33And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. You…
- Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites,…
- Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
- Genesis 10:17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
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